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Centric IT Solutions Lithuania launches an employee ambassador program
Centric IT Solutions Lithuania, the Lithuanian branch of Centric, is starting to implement an employee ambassador program. Employees who are interested in gaining new skills and becoming an active presence in digital media are invited to join the program.
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Centric IT Solutions Lithuania opens up the first ever DevOps & Cloud Academy
Centric IT Solutions Lithuania opens up the first ever DevOps & Cloud Academy in Lithuania and invites IT professionals to deepen their knowledge for freeCentric IT Solutions Lithuania, a division of the Dutch IT giant Centric in Kaunas, has opened up first ever in Lithuania tuition fee-free DevOps & Cloud Academy, and selected fifteen motivated participants who will deepen their knowledge, both theoretical and practical, in the field of cloud computing and DevOps practices. The brightest graduates of the Academy will then have the opportunity to join the company and expand their knowledge further through practical work.
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Centric IT Solutions Lithuania ranked among Top Lithuanian companies
According to Rekvizitai.lt, TOP COMPANIES are profitable business enterprises that create long-term value and build a solid foundation for Lithuania. Rekvizitai.lt nominates and awards companies that meet the set criteria only, trusting and recommending them as promising and economically stable companies that can be reasonably expected to ensure successful and sustainable cooperation. A mere 7% of Lithuanian companies meet the strict TOP Company 2021 criteria.
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Expanded partnership with KTU: even more of Centric's contribution to the future of talents
2020/06/15This year we supplemented the agreement signed a year ago between Centric IT Solutions Lithuania and the most influential in the region - Kaunas University of Technology - with significantly expanded activities. In mid-June, we signed a cooperation agreement with the university's department of informatics in which we pledge to contribute to the preparation of study programs and study module tasks, to offer topics for bachelor's or master's theses, to contribute to the activities of the faculty committee, to provide internships for students, to contribute to ICIST conference and other events and projects initiated by KTU IF.
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The aim of the internship: the first career steps and a meaningful summer
2020 07 21To learn good practices, see from the inside how complex projects created in Lithuania are born and touch upon the latest technologies - it is with these expectations that interns - three Kaunas University of Technology IT students - joined Centric IT Solutions Lithuania this summer.
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When the first days of work coincide with the start of quarantine: the experiences of Jurga and Julija
05/06/2020The national and global lockdown not only forced everyone to quickly learn how to work from home but also changed the work principles that were considered common or self-evident. Let's take recruitment and onboarding, for example. Job interviews conducted by companies remotely is not a new practice and is often applied in international companies with branches in various countries. But to get on board and start working in a company remotely is something new that employees needed to invent themselves and figure out how it will work. That was the challenge that two of our colleagues faced - Talent Attraction specialist Jurga Schulze and Personnel Coordinator Julija Stanaitytė who were employed at Centric before the quarantine and thus had to spend their first days and months at a new job not being physically in the office but meeting and communicating with colleagues online.
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The first Centric employee in Kaunas, "The beginning is the best time to implement change"
2020/05/22When asked whether there was any fear in dropping everything and coming to nothing - a company that was just starting to shape its future image, laying out future plans and having zero employees, Centric IT Solutions Lithuania's Head of IT Mantas Lukoševičius just smiles and shakes his head, "I view such notions like "new" and "not new" company a bit differently. When I went to work at Centric, I knew that it was part of a large multinational corporation that had been operating for decades, with thousands of employees in the company's branches around the world. And I saw the opportunity of being the first employee and actively contributing to the creation of the Lithuanian branch as the biggest advantage and attraction."
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Competences developed in Kaunas are spreading to Europe
2020/02/21When the Dutch IT company Centric came to Kaunas almost two years ago, one of its main strategic goals was to build a Lithuanian talent team that would become a significant center of excellence for this international giant in DevOps and Cloud Solutions. With nearly thirty professionals today, DevOps and Cloud Solutions department at Centric IT Solutions Lithuania is taking the lead in cultivating the maturity of DevOps culture across the organization by taking the first steps in an international conference organized in the Netherlands.
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International company Centric presenter's lectures for KTU students
2019/09/11This September, Master students of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) who have chosen the MA + Information Service Management competency model will be able to draw professional knowledge and skills from a representative of the Dutch IT company Centric. Leen Blom, Centric's Research & Development Manager, who will be coming to Kaunas twice - in October and November - will conduct theoretical and practical sessions called Making Money in the Clouds.
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Cloud engineers - the most sought-after in the labor market
07/05/2019"The title itself - a cloud engineer - sounds exotic and if we add that there are also cloud architects and cloud designers, one could think that the sunshine and rain depend on us," says Mantas Lukoševičius, the head of cloud engineering development group in Dutch company Centric IT Solutions Lithuania.So, what do cloud engineers do exactly and why do recruitment agencies already feel the shortage of professionals in this field and predict their growing demand in the future?
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KTU and Centric started their cooperation
On the first week of April, Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) signed a cooperation agreement with the Dutch IT company Centric IT Solutions Lithuania. The start of official cooperation was marked by four scholarships established by the company for talented KTU informatics students.
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Cyber Security Specialists: the weak link is people, not technology
10/01/2020If we had to pick out the most mythical IT specialty, security specialists would undoubtedly rise to the top of the list. Not only because cybersecurity theme is often used in popular culture - from films to novels - but also because when the virtual space is increasingly starting to permeate all parts of our lives, practically all of us start to face non-security. "No one is safe," Centric IT Solutions Lithuania Security team's Engineers Aurimas Černiakovas, Lukas Antanaitis and Aivaras Klišauskas smile in unison, right away adding that in most cases, it is the inadvertent and reckless people who become the security's weak link and not the crooked technology. "Our main goal is to minimize the risk as much as possible and, in the event of something, detect it and respond promptly," cyber security experts say.
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Data Scientist Pijus: volunteering at the day center is the best way to spend your free time
23/12/2019Two days a week he comes to work much earlier so that in the afternoon he could rush to Vilijampolė where at Gerumo rankos day center he will be working with children until the evening. Mathematician and Data Scientist at Centric IT Solutions Lithuania, Pijus Kuzma says that willingness to give and share is an integral part of his life, and volunteer work that he has been doing for six years now, is far more enriching than he could have ever expected it to be.
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Internship at the IT company - a double leap forward
13/12/2019Motivated, reasoned, aware of what they want - these are the kind of young interns, who joined Centric IT Solutions Lithuania team for three months with bright eyes and a thirst for knowledge. During the period of learning, getting acquainted with and testing various positions, each intern is trained and mentored by his/her internship supervisor - a professional in his/her field. “Educating the younger generation and sharing knowledge with young people is an integral part of every socially responsible company. This is the only way we can help our younger future colleagues successfully integrate into the labor market,” Agnė Jankauskė, Talent Acquisition Specialist at Centric IT Solutions Lithuania, says.
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A career in IT - much more than a Programmer
27/11/2019Not only student career days but also questions and attitudes of young people who come to the internship interviews show that many future IT specialists often confuse IT fields and have little idea of the difference between an IT engineer or IT security specialist and a programmer.So, this time we are talking to four professionals in different IT fields, Marius, Justas, Tomas and Mantas from Centric IT Solutions Lithuania, to better understand the broadness of the term “IT specialist” and to learn why IT is so much more than programming.
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After 12 years in Norway came back to work in the IT company in Kaunas, "I didn't hesitate - not even for a moment"
25/03/2019Coming back to Lithuania for short holidays only, for over a decade, Armantas Tupčiauskas says that he never thought of settling in another country for good. Not even the growing career possibilities, his own business, mastered local language and all new friends in Norway made his heart long for the homeland less. Therefore, when he saw that the international IT technology giant Centric is looking for a Norwegian-speaking specialist to work in Kaunas, he sent his CV on the same evening and after successful job interviews, without looking back, returned to his native city of Kaunas.33-year-old Armantas says that he has been interested in the IT field all his life, so it is no coincidence that he chose IT engineering at Kaunas College as his first degree. Later, after working in Norway, he also completed extramural studies in civil engineering. "I hoped for construction to become a salable sector, so I could move to it after returning to Lithuania. Unfortunately, the right job never came up, so I had to go back to Norway."
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How Swedish and Norwegian IT specialists made Kaunas their own
21/08/2019"Are you ready for an adventure?" asked the job ad that caught the eye of Simon from Norway just over six months ago. One year contract at the international IT company Centric in Kaunas attracted not only him but other young colleagues from Norway and Sweden. Today, having spent a few months in Lithuania, all four of them already feel like at home and share their impressions of an adventure that has brought them to a land they did not know much about.
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Tomas, organizer of Kubernetes community: studying does not end after graduation
09/10/2019When hearing the stereotypical saying, "I graduated and started working," Cloud Architect Tomas Adomavičius simply shrugs. "I never thought like that. For me, learning is not a finite process. On the contrary, I have successfully combined work and education both at university and when I started my professional career," says the specialist, who works as the cloud architect at Dutch IT giant Centric's subdivision in Kaunas. Even today, after more than a decade of various jobs and positions held in Lithuanian, German, Irish and French companies, Tomas continues learning and exploring the constantly shifting technologies and gathers together the like-minded people by organizing Kubernetes meetings in Kaunas.
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The interns of Centric don't want to leave
21/02/2019Just a few months after the official opening of Centric in Kaunas, the team has already been supplemented by three talented interns: the fourth-year students of Kaunas University of Technology (KTU) joined the teams of professionals from different fields for three months. After the first few weeks in the company, the young interns claim to have discovered the activities that they would like to engage in the future.
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DevOps culture Ambassador
12/07/2019Meet Tomas Stankevičius - Centric IT Solutions Lithuania Technical Lead for DevOps team. Tomas became the first DevOps engineer of Centric when the Dutch IT giant began setting up its subdivision in Kaunas. From the start, he helped to build a strong team of professionals, and together they continue to promote DevOps culture within the company as well as outside its walls.